The 2008 UENR Conference program is currently
in development. For a general overview, including informatioon
on Thursday's activities (field tour, optional
in-class workshop,
and
Ice-Breaker Social) see the Schedule
Overview page.
For a more detailed schedule,
see below.
|
Meet
8:15 a.m. at LaSells Stewart Center
|
| Time |
Workshop/Presentation Title |
Presenter |
| 8:30 a.m. |
Opening remarks |
Johnson, Edge and Jensen |
| 8:45 |
Keynote address with Q & A: "Preparing
future natural resource leaders" |
John Gordon, Ph.D. |
| 9:30 |
Keynote address with Q & A: "Preparing
resource professionals for an uncertain world" |
Jerry F. Franklin, Ph.D. |
| 10:15 |
(break) |
| 10:45 |
Small working group sessions |
Facilitated by steering committee members |
| 11:15 |
Begin collecting cards |
Bailey, Edge and Jensen |
| 11:30 |
Reporting session |
Bailey, Edge and Jensen |
| 12:00 p.m. |
LUNCH and Poster Session |
-poster- |
A pain in the assessment? Teaching evaluations and the
tenure track |
Sarah Vonhof |
-poster- |
Taking classroom to the field: An integrated approach
for teaching soil science courses at the University of
Guam |
Mohammad Golabi |
-poster- |
An outdoor classroom in Ozark wilderness: The University
of Missouri Ozark forest education experience |
Jason A. Hubbart |
-poster- |
Helping students on the journey to becoming successful
researcher at the OSU Libraries |
Hannah Gascho Rempel |
-poster- |
It's the holes: on teaching about soils |
Benno Warkentin |
-poster- |
Got groundwater? |
Todd Jarvis |
-poster- |
OSU Press book display |
Tom Booth |
Concurrent Sessions #1-4
(with
concluding 4:30 plenary)
Friday afternoon
|
| 1:30-4:30 |
#1: Fostering Critical Thinking |
| 1:30 |
Workshop -- The next Aldo Leopold: A place for moral
reasoning in natural resource education |
Kathleen Dean Moore |
| 3:00 |
(break) |
| 3:30 |
Workshop (con't) |
| 4:00 |
The educational values of trees and forests |
Terry L. Sharik |
| 1:30-4:30 |
#2: Experiential and Service Learning |
| 1:30 |
Workshop -- Making service-learning work for you |
George Hess |
| 3:00 |
(break) |
| 3:30 |
Workshop (con't) |
| 1:30-4:30 |
#3: Recruiting and Retaining Students |
Facilitated by Rebecca Goggans |
| 1:30 |
Recruiting isn't rocket science so why shoot for the
moon? |
Rebecca Goggans |
| 2:30 |
Student attraction to and hesitancy about matriculating
in an undergraduate forestry program in the U.S. |
Terry L. Sharik Stacey Frisk |
| 3:00 |
(break) |
| 3:30 |
Out standing in left field: Disciplinary boundaries and
undergraduate natural resources education |
Sarah Vonhof |
| 4:00 |
Using forest ecology exercises in science fairs to increase
interest in forest resources education: An example from
a stand development study |
Brian Roy Lockhart |
| 1:30-4:30 |
#4: Enhancing Communication Skills |
| 1:30 |
Student preparation for professional communications |
Pat Stephens Williams |
| 3:00 |
(break) |
| 3:30 |
MSRI online masters program: What our five years has
taught us |
Mike Legg |
| 4:00 |
Teaching writing within forestry |
E. Friginal, T. Kolb, M. Lee, N. Tracy-Ventura |
| 4:30 p.m. |
Plenary presentation - Higher forestry education under
the auspices of the Bologna process |
Sigfried Lewark, University of Freiburg |
Saturday, March 15, 2008 |
Meet
8:15 a.m. at Peavy/Richardson Halls |
Concurrent Sessions #5-8
Saturday morning |
| 8:30-12:00 |
#5: Fostering Critical Thinking |
Facilitated by Lisa Ganio |
| 8:30 |
Socrates goes to the woods: Including philosophy and
ethics in the fisheries and wildlife curriculum |
Kelly Millenbah |
| 9:30 |
Education technology to "discuss" controversial topics
in large-enrollment classes within the natural resources |
John B. Dunning, Jr. |
| 10:00 |
(break) |
| 10:30 |
Fusing science and ethics: Tools for natural resource
educators |
Linda Nagel |
| 11:00 |
Using LegoŠ blocks to model concepts of Reineke's stand
density index and Curtis's relative density |
Monica Spicker |
| 11:30 |
Zen and the art of chainsaw maintenance |
G. Andrew Bartholomay |
| 8:30-12:00 |
#6: Experiential & Service Learning |
Facilitated by Rebecca Goggans |
| 8:30 |
Creating dirty minds: The promise of outdoor philosophy |
Lissy Goralnik |
| 9:00 |
Engaging minds, building community: Research and recommendations
for facilitating community engagement |
Kate Westdijk |
| 9:30 |
Looking at the big picture: Engaging NR students in landscape-level
planning through a capstone course |
Linda Prokopy |
| 10:00 |
(break) |
| 10:30 |
The value of recurring intradisciplinary meetings for
preventing stagnation in NR education |
Edward Loewenstein |
| 11:00 |
Field experience for students and critical assistance
for family landowners in the southern Appalachians |
Laura E. DeWald |
| 11:30 |
Enhancing science teachers' understanding of ecology
- qualitative modeling and summer research experiences |
Marion Dresner/
Andrew Moldenke |
| 8:30-12:00 |
#7: Innovations in Outreach Education |
Facilitated by Bonnie Avery |
| 8:30 |
Oregon explorer: Natural resources information for current
and future decision-makers |
Andrea Wirth / Janine Salwasser |
| 9:00 |
Opportunities and limitations in teaching forest resources
continuing education: southern bottomland hardwoods |
Brian Roy Lockhart |
| 9:30 |
Fostering engagement in NR through research: A case study
of a high school summer employment program |
Amy Grotta |
| 10:00 |
(break) |
| 10:30 |
The Florida master naturalist program: Innovation in
statewide conservation education |
Martin Main |
| 11:00 |
Distance education and active learning - one approach
to prepare future state park managers |
Aram Attarian |
| 11:30 |
The Wallowa Mountain Institute |
Don Harker |
| 8:30-12:00 |
#8: Making Learning Count: Outcomes & Assessment |
Facilitated by John Bailey |
| 8:30 |
Comparing how Palestinian and American K-12 students
learn about the water cycle |
Hasan Abdelkareem |
| 9:00 |
Collaboration in campus-wide assessment: Defining undergraduate
information literacy competencies |
Anne-Marie Deitering |
| 9:30 |
Determining standards and criteria for effective sustainable
NR programs in higher education |
April S. Grecho |
| 10:00 |
(break) |
| 10:30 |
What consulting foresters in Texas are telling us about
education needs |
Pat Stephens Williams |
| 11:00 |
The students of today at Penn State's School of Forest
Resources |
Jamie Murphy |
| 11:30 |
Incorporating outcome assessment strategies into an undergraduate
fisheries and wildlife curriculum |
Bruce Dugger |
Concurrent Sessions #9-12
Saturday afternoon |
| 1:30-4:30 |
#9: Increasing Diversity and Inclusion |
Facilitated by Pat Williams |
| 1:30 |
Forestry education in the United States for the 21st
century: Round I (Roundtable discussion) |
Pat Stephens Williams |
| 3:00 |
(break) |
| 3:30 |
The Community Forestry Research Fellowship |
John C. Bliss / Nils Christoffersen |
| 4:00 |
Resources through another lens: Developing multicultural
perspectives in a NR program |
Judith Li |
| 1:30-4:30 |
#10: Collaboration and Experiential Learning |
Facilitated by John Bliss |
| 1:30 |
An experiential learning approach to graduate education
(Panel presentation) |
John C. Bliss |
| 2:30 |
Collaborative resource education and stewardship in northeastern
Nevada |
Kent McAdoo |
| 3:00 |
(break) |
| 3:30 |
21st Century fish and wildlife curricula |
Bjorn Wolter |
| 4:00 |
Solutions for natural resources problems through service
learning |
Delwin E. Benson |
| 1:30-4:30 |
#11: Innovations in Outreach Education |
Facilitated by Gary Evans |
| 1:30 |
Natural Resources Distance Learning Consortium (Panel
presentation) |
Gary R. Evans |
| 3:00 |
(break) |
| 3:30 |
Library course assignment pages: Helping students with
research skills |
Margaret Mellinger |
| 4:00 |
Comparing F2F and online student success in a lab-based
course |
Ron Reuter |
| 1:30-4:30 |
#12: Partnering with Agencies /
P & T Strategies |
Facilitated by Bill Ashton |
| 1:30 |
Oregon forests: Pathways to K-12 student success |
Norie Dimeo-Ediger |
| 2:00 |
Transferring learning to work: making learning real for
natural resource leaders and their employers |
Bill Ashton |
| 2:30 |
First stop planning and communication using "LandHelp" |
Delwin Benson |
| 3:00 |
(break) |
| 3:30 |
Faculty mentoring faculty program |
Samantha Gill |
| 4:00 |
Making teaching count in P&T decisions: Can we document
good teaching? |
Nat B. Frazer |
| 4:30 p.m. |
Business meeting (Plenary) |
| 5:30 p.m. |
Social/Cocktail Hour |
| 6:00 p.m. |
Closing Dinner |
